Sunday, 25 May 2014

This colourful lap quilt or throw is made from 1090 individual pieces of fabric. I aimed to achieve a 'scrappy' vintage look with the eclectic mix of fabrics used.

Included are precious snippets of 1970s Summer dresses, vegetable-dyed
fabrics, fabrics dyed by me, repurposed clothing, right up to modern day
batiks and Kaffe Fasset shot cottons and colourful flower fabrics.

The colour scheme goes from light to dark in the columns and from red to
orange/yellow, green, brown, blue, purples/lilacs to pinks across the
rows.

The quilt is made in a freely adapted rail fence pattern, with stripes
of differing widths, (each stripe may be made from one to three
different fabrics), and these are made into 144 five inch squares, and
finished off with a yellow and mint binding, inspired by an antique
quilt.

The quilting is machine sewn at 2.5 inch intervals using a cream to
beige shaded thread. The wadding is 80% cotton/20% polyester and gives a
good combination of warmth and drape to the piece.

Thursday, 22 May 2014

Vicki Hodge is an English Model and Actress born in 1946 in Surrey, her father is the 2nd Baronet of Chipstead, Kent.

She attended the Legat school of Russian Ballet when it was at Finchcocks, Goudhurst, Kent.

Later she attended The Lucie Clayton School of modelling and was photographed by David Bailey.

She was the girlfriend of gangster and actor John Bindon and also a former girlfriend of Prince Andrew.

She starred in The natural Contours of the body - a serious film produced by a pharmaceutical company on body shape and weight control. But is probably best known for starring in the TV series Hazell, Confessions of a sex maniac, The Stud and Special Branch.